You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.

there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.